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How Trump’s RNC Weaponized Blackness to Sell a Lie

SNAKE OIL SALESMAN
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The RNC’s closing night made it clear they’re “more concerned about winning than they are about governing, and right now, Black people and the poor are irresistible assets.”

What can definitively be said about the Republican National Convention’s weaponizing of Blackness and poverty to spout predictable American mythology? 

Trump and his cronies say again and again that he has “done the most for Black people.”

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